United States: leader of a 764 splinter network sentenced to the statutory maximum
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
founder and leader of the 'Cultists' network, a 764/CVLT splinter
Organization
'Cultists' (764/CVLT splinter)
Archive classification
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CORE, on the same basis as the corpus's other 764-network records: the network's satanic-nihilist doctrine is the instrument by which minors are coerced.
- Violent occult ideology or sacrifice
- Ritual, oath, or initiation
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2026-07-16 · guilty plea and sentence
US District Court, District of Hawaii (Senior Judge Helen Gillmor). Kalana Limkin, founder and leader of the 'Cultists' network — a splinter of the 764 and CVLT networks — pleaded guilty on 13 February 2025 to possession of child sexual-abuse material and was sentenced on 16 July 2026 to 120 months, the statutory maximum, followed by twenty years of supervised release.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- the network's coercion of minors into sexual and self-harm content
Cited record
Sources
- official prosecutor release sentencing release US Attorney's Office, District of Hawaii: sentencing release.
The prosecuting authority's own release.
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- Source and tier basis
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-hi/pr/leader-violent-extremist-terror-network-cultists-sentenced-10-years-federal-prison Corpus classification: official-prosecutor-release; evidentiary role: sentencing-release. SHA-256 9ecd6b476a7dd1460592bfc49fa5c7a62ad67f02bab07d5fd60d291ae11cde9a
- Retrieval
- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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